GP40 9302 Re-Weathered

A few weeks ago, I showed this GP40 that I had picked up through an internet sale and said that I was intending to re-do the weathering on it.  After a slow start, this one is all finished up now, so here it is...

First, the original photo (again):

The original rooftop weathering came off easily enough using some isopropyl alcohol on a cotton swab.

I tried to weather the sides to appear as the stripes and some of the black had worn off, but to be honest, that didn't work out very well for me, so I stripped that off with the alcohol as well.  I really didn't like the white of the stripes either, so I painted over them with flat black and put on new stripes using an old Microscale decal set that I've had for years.

The decal stripes aren't as white as the original paint, and I like them better.  They are however just a little tiny bit narrower than the original, but you have to look pretty closely to be able to notice the difference.  I'm going to live with it.

I faded the cab with some of my usual Concrete Gray, and also sprayed some of it to on the long hood to flatten the black a little bit.  Some dark weathering streaks are hand brushed onto the cab, as well as some panel line black to some of the doors on the long hood

Here you can see that there's some red primer that I dabbed onto the fuel tank, and some wear appearing on the walkway that was done with a bit of brown and black Panel Line.

And a few views out on the layout for the first time...

Coupling onto a pair of boxcars behind the fencing at the Tri-State Paper spur.

A less obstructed view of 9302 at work.

9302 lifting a couple of boxcars from Tri-State Paper.  I like this view.

The engineer's side

That'll be all for this time.